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...when automation was just getting under way, Norbert Wiener, M.I.T. mathematics professor and pioneer in the development of automated machines, forecast that automation would reduce wage earners to "slave labor," and bring on an economic crash that would make "the Depression of the '30s seem a pleasant joke." Now Wiener has changed his mind: man is becoming automation's master, not its slave. He cheerfully concedes that automation is "increasing man's leisure, enriching his spiritual life...
Consolation Prize. In Fort Wayne, Ind., an Allen County superior court judge ordered Norbert Rehm to cut the lawn every week for his separated wife, gave him "temporary custody of the power mower...
...first doubles, the Bartholet brothers bowed in three sets to Ben Heckscher and Gravem, and Mayers and Harris disposed of Dick Stendel and Ernest Crocker in second doubles, 6-3, 6-3. Fischer and Canfield beat Norbert Wagner and Erick Eybye in the final match...
Receipt Delayed. Robert Ledterman and Norbert O'Neill, business associates of Bobby's father, made two abortive efforts to deliver the ransom to Hall. The first time his instructions were too confused to follow. Next, the cash-filled duffel bag was dropped off in a rural spot, but Hall telephoned to say that he had not found it. Ledterman and O'Neill went back and retrieved...
...managed to come out of it all. He got his Ph.D. at 18, and did graduate work in philosophy under Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Josiah Royce and George Santayana. For a time he vacillated between mathematics and philosophy, finally chose math, with brilliant results. Looking back on his youth, Norbert Wiener tries hard to strike a judicious balance. He still admires the standards of scholarship and devotion to intellectual matters he learned from his father. He cannot help agreeing with papa that it was worth learning geometry, Greek, Latin and German "at an age when most boys are learning trivialities...